Adora Finds a Friend by Ahmet Zappa

Author:Ahmet Zappa
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Disney Book Group
Published: 2016-08-14T04:00:00+00:00

How indeed? The Star Darlings all looked at each other, unsure of what to say. Adora took a deep breath.

“Well,” she began, allowing herself to blush a shade of sky blue, “when we got your holo-text, it just so happened we were all together. You, um, must have left the door to your office open, so we let ourselves in. But you were nowhere to be seen. So star apologies, Lady Stella, but we used the secret drawer to open the passage. And here we are.”

There wasn’t one lie in the whole speech! Well, maybe some little light lies. But still, not bad if I do say so myself, Adora thought, relieved she’d managed to stick to a fuzzy kind of truth.

Lady Stella looked a bit doubtful and seemed about to say more. But then the sunlight streaming into the cavern brightened dramatically—Adora had asked herself startime after startime how that worked underground—and Lady Stella bowed her head. “It must be time. Come, girls.”

The Star Darlings moved to the center of the Wish Cavern and gathered around the grass-covered platform.

Adora’s mind, usually so focused, buzzed with ideas, theories, and possibilities. That secret room…had someone tried to trap them there? Or was the door on a timer? And why was Lady Stella keeping so many secrets? Who had been that mysterious visitor in her office?

Adora’s thoughts switched to the upcoming mission as the platform opened and a Wish Orb floated up into the room. The glittering ball could choose her, Adora knew. But she wouldn’t get that special feeling so many of the others had at the sight of their orbs. She just didn’t have that intuitive sense.

A couple of Wish Orb presentations before, in fact, she’d felt a definite tingle. This is it, she’d thought. This Wish Orb is mine. I’m going on the mission! But instead, the orb had settled right into Cassie’s waiting hand.

Now she didn’t have the slightest sense the orb would stop at her. It hovered between Gemma and Clover, and Adora sighed. She’d just have to wait until next—

Suddenly, the orb dipped and moved, swaying as if blown by a breeze. It first flew to Cassie, who unthinkingly reached out for it but then drew back her hand. Then it continued, moving a bit jerkily, to stop directly in front of Adora.

Adora held out her hands, and the orb landed on her palm as softly as a flutterfocus.

“The orb has chosen,” Lady Stella said, just as always. Adora felt everyone’s eyes on her, and she smiled. Each girl smiled back, even Scarlet, but Adora felt the tension in the room. They’d just learned the fate of Starland was in their hands—and they’d been trapped underground!

The gravity of the situation hit Adora like a load of starbricks. She’d be traveling mooniums of floozles away to a distant planet, away from her family and friends and everything she knew in the middle of a wish energy crisis. What if she got trapped there?

Adora brushed aside the thought. She would handle anything that came her way with logic and clarity, and it would turn out all right.

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